Leaked Digital Fairness Act: the EU takes aim at loot boxes and addictive design

Leaked Digital Fairness Act: the EU takes aim at loot boxes and addictive design

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The draft of the Digital Fairness Act has leaked — the proposal with which the European Commission wants to rewrite consumer-protection rules for the digital world. And the part that touches video games leaves a mark: loot boxes off by default for minors, virtual currencies…
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Steam Deck: Valve opens up framerate data – and cracks the Verified badge

Steam Deck: Valve opens up framerate data – and cracks the Verified badge

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Valve rolled out today, 10 November, a feature Steam Deck owners have asked for for years: the real average framerate players actually get in each game, shown right on the Steam store page. Until now you had to trust the Verified, Playable or Unsupported badge,…
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Steam Deck: local transfers are now for everyone and SteamOS 3.5 brings HDR and VRR on external monitors

Steam Deck: local transfers are now for everyone and SteamOS 3.5 brings HDR and VRR on external monitors

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Two Steam Deck updates have landed this week and both point at the same thing: the problem is no longer the hardware, it’s the time you lose moving games around. On one hand, Valve has taken local transfers out of beta: they’re now available to…
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Nintendo sells 30% fewer consoles and makes more money: hardware no longer sustains the industry

Nintendo sells 30% fewer consoles and makes more money: hardware no longer sustains the industry

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Nintendo has reported its results and the easy headline is the bad one: hardware sales are down 30%, counting both Switch 2 and the original Switch. Stop there and the conclusion is that the successor isn’t working. Look one line further down and the conclusion…
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GTA VI launches on 19 November: Rockstar has eleven days left and the game is still a mystery

GTA VI launches on 19 November: Rockstar has eleven days left and the game is still a mystery

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Grand Theft Auto VI launches on 19 November 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Eleven days to go. And at this stage — eleven days before the most expensive console launch in history — Rockstar still hasn’t shown the game beyond a couple of…
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